Vera Pauw didn’t need to see much more than a few clips of Sinead Farrelly playing in some small-sided games to be convinced that she was a potential World Cup star in the making.
Contact between the pair had been initiated last summer, six years into the former USA underage prospect’s retirement from football.
Farrelly was looking for a way back into the game and, with a Cavan-born dad, wanted to try her luck on the international stage.
